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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Google lets you ask a series of suggested questions (kinda like the auto suggested text stuff), or you can just ignore the call. I've never felt the need to engage any further with any numbers I don't already have, and not sure exactly why you'd want to, but the feature has been available for years now.

Edit - I think you can even screen the call by listening to the callers reply to the robot voice, but again never really cared enough to use it.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

It displays a transcript on the screen. Most of the time spamers just hang up.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure if it's pixel only at the moment but they recently expanded the previously US only feature to screen calls like that automatically. You get a live transcript and if you missed the call you can listen back to the recording. But the biggest feature is actually hidden, if I go look at my call history I'd say a good 75% of it is confirmed spam that was detected and effectively blocked without bringing it to my attention at all.

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